Re: upgrading to unstable KDE
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:48:55AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:20:44PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote:
> > I'm running Woody right now, but am tempted to dselect-upgrade KDE
> > to the 3.10 in unstable (because of the improvements to kmail). Any
> > thoughts on the potential pain/painlessness of this upgrade, before
> > I try it? If there's a fair chance of having to spend a lot of time
> > fixing a broken system, I'll just wait for it to arrive in testing.
>
> I think it's linked to a newer libc than is in woody. Upgrading KDE
> would result in upgrading libc, which results in upgrading...hmm,
> could someone tell me what isn't dependant on libc again?
Nothing much apart from documentation, but you've got it the wrong way
round; the only thing that libc6 depends on is libdb1-compat, plus it
conflicts with earlier versions of some packages. Upgrading libc6
doesn't require you to upgrade everything that depends on it.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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